EBC Exercise 07 Installing Ubuntu in VMware

It's pretty much agreed that if you are going to develop for embedded Linux, you should do it in Linux. The problem is many have some form of Windows OS installed. Here are step by step instructions on how to install a virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux on your Windows box.

Download it. This will take several steps. In the end you will download a file that's some 436M.

Downloading Ubuntu

You are welcome to run whatever flavor of Linux you want, however I suggest running the current long-term support version of Ubuntu. The current LTS is 12.04. If you are at Rose you can quickly get it from the CSSE site.